Savorgnan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
338 U.S. 491 · 1950
Citation profile
186 federal appellate · 43 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 365 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez (1963), Trop v. Dulles (1958)
186 federal appellate · 43 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedSavorgnan v. United States (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 747 · 8 U.S.C. § 800 · 8 U.S.C. § 801 · 8 U.S.C. § 904
Relies on Perkins v. Elg · Cox v. Hart · Alexander Murray v. Charming Betsy · Mackenzie v. Hare
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 365 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) From and after the effective date of this chapter a person who is a national of the United States whether by birth or naturalization, shall lose his nationality by 13 (1) obtaining naturalization in a foreign state upon his own application . . . ; or 14 (2) taking an oath or making an affirmation or other formal declaration of allegiance to a foreign state or a political subdivision thereof . . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intent was on leaving the United States, nor whether, at any later time, it was her intent to have a permanent residence abroad or to have a residence in the United States.... The test of such ‘residence’ is whether, at any time during that period, she did, in fact, have a ‘principal dwelling place’ or ‘place of general abode’ abroad.... Her intent as to her ‘domicile’ or as to her ‘permanent residence,’ as distinguished from her actual ‘residence,’ ‘principal dwelling place,’ and ‘place of abode,’ is not material.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For the purposes of section 201 * * * of this Act, the place of general abode shall be deemed place of residence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.